Dreams, Moments, Travels
Decided on a detour today and are driving east on Gleeson Road out into nowhere, but it’s beautiful out here where there is nothing.
We didn’t expect to find anything out this way on our way to Bisbee, but then this sign pointed down another road to Rattlesnake Ranch, and, well, there was something about it that we just knew we had to go. Good thing we did because I’m certain this will be one of my favorite photos of Jutta for the rest of my life.
Our stay last night was at the Mi Sueno Bed & Breakfast in Tumacacori, Arizona, and it was a beautiful place with a great host.
One of those rare moments when I hand the camera over to someone else and pray they frame the photo halfway decently and in this instance, our B&B host captured the scene perfectly.
Tumacácori National Historical Park, south of Tubac, Arizona, is the home of the Mission San José de Tumacácori, which was originally built in 1691, but in 1751 it was moved to its present location. Our original travel plans had us stopping at San Xavier Del Bac Mission near Tucson and the Titan Missile Museum in Green Valley, but those ideas have proven too ambitious, so they were pushed off to a future visit. After we visited the mission here, we headed south to Patagonia for a quick stop at their fall festival and then a little further south.
We reached Nogales, Arizona, on the Mexico border this afternoon before turning the car northeast for our overnight here in Tombstone. We are staying in the Buford House Bed & Breakfast, which was built back in 1880. It is purported to be haunted.
Had I never been in another cave, this would have been seriously cool, but as that’s not the case, our visit to Colossal Cave in Vail, Arizona, was a bit of a disappointment. If you have the means to go to Carlsbad Caverns in New Mexico, spend the extra time and money and go there or visit Kartchner Caverns State Park in Benson, Arizona, when you are in the Southwest. If you have kids and you are in the Tucson area, then Colossal Cave will delight them otherwise, save your money.
On the eastern side of the Saguaro National Park, we see what must be one of the tallest specimens of cactus we have ever seen. On this particular road trip, we are on a discovery drive of southeast Arizona to places we’ve not visited before.